Heart of ice

New Zealand author Nalini Singh returns to the world of the Psy-Changelings in her new novel, Shield of Winter. A highly gifted teleporter, Vasic was removed from his family as a 4-year-old and trained to become an Arrow, an elite warrior class within the Psy race. After a lifetime spent as an assassin, his “soul is drenched in blood.”

To love a wild wolf

Nalini Singh takes her readers deep into the wolf’s den in her latest Psy/Changeling installment, Kiss of Snow, where the antagonistic, sexually charged relationship between alpha male Hawke and soldier Sienna Lauren has the potential to save the SnowDancer pack—or annihilate it.Sienna is a rare cardinal X-Psy—a sort of human nuclear reactor—and has learned to control...

Romance Column by Barbara Samuel

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh, deserves inclusion here for its powerful mix of sharp-edged world-building and intense romance. In a near-future San Francisco, where rigidly unemotional Psy and animal-ruled Changelings have come to an uneasy alliance, passion in the mind-linked Psy is forbidden, and horrifically punished. Sascha Duncan, a highborn Psy, is struggling against the emotions...